In this conversation, Robert Bosnak, a Jungian analyst who has studied alchemy for 40 years, shares insights into alchemical psychology and how its various phases connect to our own individuation process.

Some of the alchemical phases relate to colors, with “yellow” being a stage of fermentation that takes place between the silver-white stage of reflection and the red stage of action. Action becomes the act of creativity, states Robert, and ultimately as transformation occurs, you begin to realize it’s not the insights you gain through understanding that go into the world, but rather your being that has been affected by the insights.

Robert Bosnak is leading an online lecture series on Jung Platform on “Yellowing and the Stone: Fermentation and the Goal of the Opus,” hosted by Jung Platform. This course starts September 15th, 2016, and meets online 10 times over 6 months. Details here.

Robert Bosnak, PsyA is a Jungian psychoanalyst who graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1977. Since then, he has been in private practice in the United States and Australia. He founded the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary, and developed a method of working with dreams called “Embodied Imagination.” He has also written several books, among which the worldwide bestseller A Little Course In Dreams. Robert is currently working on the fourth book in a series of novels, Red Sulphur: The greatest Mystery in Alchemy.

Ecopsychology: On Educating Ourselves as Ecopsychological Beings in a Psychological World—Dr. Lori Pye in conversation with Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.

The psychology of the individual is what is destroying the ecological world,” Dr. Lori Pye believes, noting that we are perhaps the only species that is homicidal, suicidal, and ecocidal, and that each of these is interrelated. However, there is absolutely opportunity to effect change in the world—to affect policies and practices and to change how humanity thinks about itself—but it starts with the individual.

Dr. Pye’s sense of opportunity is that we can all be educated on our sense of “who we are as an ecosystem or ecological organism living in a psychological world.” Pye holds a strong belief the heart and soul of humanity, in the human capacity for effecting change—but one needs a psychological education behind it in order to be effective.

Dr. Lori Pye is a Founder and President of Viridis Graduate Institute. Dr. Pye’s background consists of environmental & marine conservation, undergraduate and graduate academic instruction.
As an environmentalist, Dr. Pye worked with international NGOs to co-develop the Eastern Tropical Pacific Biological Seascape Corridor with the Ministers of the Environment from Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador.

She has led international conferences on diverse issues: Nature and Human Nature, The Mythology of Violence, The Aesthetic Nature of Change, and These Women: Honoring Women in Archetypal and Depth Psychology. Dr. Pye’s unique contribution to the developing field of ecopsychology brings together the sciences and humanities through the examination of literature, art, ecological, biological, and depth psychological principles essential to the processes of transforming deeply rooted unconscious narratives that drive human practices, civic illiteracy, policies, and decisions about how we design and craft our world in both creative and destructive ways.

Dr. Pye has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and has taught internationally and serves on the Editorial Board for Ecopsychology Journal. She currently lectures at Viridis Graduate Institute, University of Santa Barbara (UCSB), and Kaweah Delta Mental Health Hospital Psychiatric Residency Program.

"We are most lost and truly in exile when we have lost touch with our own soul, with our unique inward style and way of being in this world.” —Michael Meade

In this interview, Meade shares insights with Bonnie Bright into his own mythological and depth psychological view of how—though we’re living in a radical time when it seems like the world is falling apart; when “nature is rattling and culture seems to be unraveling”—being in touch with one’s innate genius is “an unerring guide to what a person’s life is supposed to be about.”

Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. His hypnotic and fiery storytelling, street savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths are highly relevant to current culture.

He is the author of many books including Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul and The World Behind the World. Meade is founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit dedicated to education and cultural healing. For more information, visit www.mosaicvoices.org

Counseling is an applied healing art that helps us address suffering, enrich personal lives, activate our potential, to live more fully, and to develop more adaptive capacities to life in the view of depth psychotherapist Dr. Matthew Bennett. Join Dr. Bennett with Bonnie Bright Ph.D. to better understand, in depth psychological terms, how identifying, opening to, and ultimately embracing the “other” is a required step toward wholeness.

Matthew Bennett, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, lecturer, and administrator with experience in public sector mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Dr. Bennett has broad experience in program development. He was formerly founder and first Director of Training for the Ventura County Behavioral Health Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology and Chair-Elect of the Psychology Department at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California. His research interests include personality disorders, comparative personality theory, and internet applications for mental health. Dr. Bennett is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer ("Poland III, 1991-1993").

Dr. Lance Owens has dedicated the past thirty or more years of his life to studying C.G. Jung, whose willingness to engage with and understand his visionary experiences has transformed so many lives. Owens has also recently become profoundly interested in the life and work of Erich Neumann, who was arguably one of Jung’s most gifted students, and who eventually became a close friend of Jung’s. Join Dr. Owens in conversation with Bonnie Bright for insights into the life and work of Erich Neumann, and Neumann's relationship with depth pyschology pioneer, C.G. Jung.

Lance S. Owens is an historian and a physician in clinical practice. He has served on the clinical staff of the University of Utah for over two decades. Since publication of Jung's Red Book: Liber Novus in 2009,

Dr. Owens has published several studies focused on Jung's extraordinary visionary experience. His lectures and seminars on Jung and the Red Book (available online) have been enjoyed by many thousands of listeners.

Dr. Owens is also the founder and editor of “The Gnosis Archive”, the major Internet repository of ancient Gnostic texts, including the complete Nag Hammadi Library of Gnostic Scriptures. A catalog of his publications and audio lectures is available at: www.gnosis.org/Lance-Owens

Dr. Pat Katsky is a Jungian Analyst and core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and she has been a therapist for thirty years. When Pat sat down with me in a recent interview, our conversation focused on the idea that some of the most psychologically healing experiences come from the natural world, a theme derived from an upcoming certificate program, “Dreaming the Earth: Earthing the Dream” starting April 15, 2016.

As an analyst, Pat has seen many “big” dreams—that is, life-changing dreams clients from clients that involved the natural world. She recounts some stories from clients, and reminds me that Jung said the main focus of his work was not on pathologies but on the approach to numinous experiences—of awe and of being in the presence of the sacred.

Pat Katsky, Ph.D., has been a core faculty member at Pacifica for over 15 years, teaching and mentoring students in many of Pacifica’s programs. She is currently serving as Vice-Provost, and formerly was Chair of the Depth Psychotherapy Program. She was certified as a Jungian analyst 20 years ago, and has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years.

Her research interests include the process of becoming a psychotherapist, the world of dreams, and the religious function of the psyche. She has published and lectured on these topics in the United States and abroad.

Pat was formerly the president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and serves regularly on the reviewing and certifying boards of the San Francisco and Los Angeles Jung Institutes. She co-founded a non-profit counseling center in Los Angeles, Counseling West, which serves individuals, couples, and families seeking a depth psychotherapeutic approach in charting a path in their lives, and she continues to participate in this organization as a member of the board of directors.

"Spirit, Soul, and the Secular: An Interview with Thomas Moore"
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...In his most recent book, "A Religion of One’s Own," Thomas Moore shares some ways to tap back into a sense of spirituality. When the topic arose, I asked Thomas his opinion about the role of formal religion, which seems to be waning in our modern world.

Tom surmises that existing institutions, including religions, need to be re-imagined to suit our times. His definition of religion is a “creative and concrete response to the Mysteries.” Religion is not just an idea or belief, he insists, nor is it about perfecting ourselves. It’s about our relationship to the Mysterious “other.”

Other topics we touched on include weathering dark nights of the soul, how to find beauty in imperfection, and what sustained Moore's 38-year long friendship with archetypal psychologist James Hillman. Moore is speaking in Santa Barbara at the "Climates of Change" conference that runs April 21-24, 2016.

Thomas Moore, Ph.D., received his degree in religion from Syracuse University. Before that he was a monk for thirteen years. He is the author of Care of the Soul and nineteen other books, with four new publications coming out in 2016.

He has been a psychotherapist for forty years and lectures widely on depth psychology, religion/spirituality and the arts. He was a close friend of James Hillman for 38 years. He is also a musician, translator and writer of fiction. For more information, visit www.careofthesoul.net.

"Confronting Signs of a Society in Decline"—Interview with Journalist Chris Hedges
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When you have witnessed the disintegration of multiple societies, it must certainly cause one to look for a similar trajectory in one's own culture.

When I spoke with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Chris Hedges, he noted that, as both individuals and civilizations, we encounter cycles of growth, maturation, decadence, and decay, and death. In contemporary society, we can see the signs of morbidity around us.

Chris Hedges, M.Div., whose column is published weekly on Truthdig.com., has written 11 books, including the New York Times best seller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt; Death of the Liberal Class; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle; I Don't Believe in Atheists; and the best selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Hedges previously spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans and was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of global terrorism.

Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and The University of Toronto. He currently teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.

Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the Founder/Director of The Assisi Institute. He has been a faculty member at the CG Jung Institute Boston, the CG Jung Foundation of New York and in graduate programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England.

A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti has presented his work to a wide range of audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich & Jungian organizations in Venezuela, Denmark, Italy and Canada. He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002). Dr. Conforti maintains a private practice in Mystic, CT and consults with individuals and corporations around the world.

"The Therapy Room and the Interactive Field"—Interview with Dr. Joseph Cambray
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In this engaging interview,"The Therapy Room and the Interactive Field"—Jungian analyst Dr. Joseph Cambray hones in on how humans reproduce patterns in art that should be impossible to perceive, focusing in on ancient mosques in Iran and the work of Jackson Pollack both indicate we have the capacity to perceive underlying patterns not necessarily accessible by logic or through the human eye.

Joseph Cambray (author of the book, Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe) shared some fascinating info about how humans tap into "the field" when we both sat down for this new interview

Joe Cambray, Ph.D., is Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Pacifica Graduate Institute as well as a Jungian analyst. He is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and former US Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. For years he was on the faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at Harvard Medical School where he co-taught a year-long course on becoming a supervisor.

His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe; a volume edited with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology; and a two volume compendium on research in analytical psychology co-edited with Christian Roesler and Leslie Sawin currently in publication. In addition, he has published numerous papers in a range of international journals.

In this fascinating discussion, Tom Elsner reveals how alchemy serves as a symbolic language which, if we engage, can lead us to transformation and growth. Jung developed a powerful and inspired method for accessing it by entering into dialogue with the rich manifestations of the unconscious and applying it to our daily lives...

Thomas Elsner J.D., M.A., is a certified Jungian analyst, faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and a member of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. He trained as a lawyer, and then as a Jungian analyst at The Centre for Depth Psychology. In his research and teaching of Egyptian, Islamic and European alchemy he continues in the lineage of Jung and Von Franz's work.

The author of numerous articles, Thomas has taught courses at Pacifica on alchemy for over seven years, as well as presenting this material in England, Ireland, Switzerland, and throughout the United States. He has a private practice in Santa Barbara and is completing a book on Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner as seen from the alchemical and depth psychological perspectives.

Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroes Within—Carol Pearson with Bonnie Bright*
—*Originally aired as part of the
"Dinner & Depth" series on Depth Psychology Alliance

Carol Pearson speaks with Bonnie Bright about insights from Carol’s new book, Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within, exploring the power of this ancient Greek story, and why it can impact us so strongly in contemporary life. Carol also discusses how recognizing patterns in imagery and narrative, and correcting our biases of perception, enables us to shift our stories and change our individual and collective lives.

Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., D. Min., is an internationally known authority on archetypes & their application to leadership, organizational development, & everyday life, best known for books, such as as The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By and Mapping the Organizational Psyche: A Jungian Theory of Organizational Dynamics and Change (co-author: John Corlett).

Her newest book, Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroes Within is written for women and the men who partner with them.

A respected scholar & higher education administrator, Dr. Pearson served most recently as Executive VP/Provost & then President of Pacifica Graduate Institute. Previously, she was Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Public Policy & the Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership. She was a member of the (ILA) Int'l Leadership Association's Board of Directors.

In this engaging interview, Dr. Slater contends that we can identify the presence of an archetype when the “universal” and the “unique” are together simultaneously. Film must absolutely engage our imaginations. And, while images do engage us, for our imaginations to really be set on fire, archetypal patterns have to be activated, creating resonance, and lingering on well after the lights come up and the theater empties...

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Glen Slater, Ph.D., has a background in both religious studies and clinical psychology. He teaches Jungian and archetypal psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California.

He edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a volume of essays by Pacifica faculty, Varieties of Mythic Experience, and has contributed a number of articles to Spring journal and other Jungian publications—several in the area of Jung and film.

Is suffering optional? Can we avoid suffering altogether, or at least diminish it? Are some people more sensitive to suffering? Is there such a thing as secondhand suffering, where certain individuals suffer more themselves because of what they’re witnessing? These are all questions I posed to Dr. Lionel Corbett, M.D, and some of his answers surprised me.

There is a shamanic way of working with clients, he was quick to suggest, wherein the therapist takes on the suffering of the client, transmutes it, and then “gives it back to them in a more digestible way..."

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Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England, and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His primary interests are the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology; the development of psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; and the interface of Jungian psychology and contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

Dr. Corbett is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of numerous professional papers and four books: Psyche and the Sacred, The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice; and most recently The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering.

He is the co-editor of Jung and Aging; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field; and Psychology at the Threshold.

There are many ways of looking at and discerning what’s calling us. It is important as one leans toward their vocation to trust emotion and affect the body is one way of finding your calling. If you pay attention to where you feel the most energy in your work life; where you have the most joy, you can notice where the calling is strong.

Myths, dreams, ritual, and synchronicity also show us paths and patterns. Selig points to works from some of the great pioneers of depth psychology, including Freud, Jung, Hillman, and Marion Woodman, to help point the way as we address questions around vocation. Perhaps the most important thing to discerning calling, however, is paying attention, Selig points out...

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Jennifer Selig, Ph.D. is founding chair of Pacifica's Jungian and Archetypal Studies Specialization and the M.A. Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life Program.

Dr. Selig currently teaches in both programs, is a published author of many books including Integration: The Psychology and Mythology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and His (Unfinished) Therapy with the Soul of America; a photographer; and writer of non-fiction and screenplays.

Dreamscoring: A Groundbreaking Way of Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy

Michael Mollura, Ph.D., joins Bonnie Bright to discuss his groundbreaking work with music and dreams. This exciting approach to psychotherapy includes researched clinical strategies to address the thematic content of client dreams.

In recurring sessions, the client collaborates with Michael as he uses his skill and gifts as a composer to re-create the experience of the dream using sounds, vibrations, and tones which then create a musical landscape that best describes the dream in a new collaborative piece of music composition.

In follow-up sessions, client and therapist explore new images, ideas, and interpretations that may have emerged as healing begins to occur. Listen in to hear Dr. Mollura describe the process and dialogue about the exciting results he has witnessed.

Dr. Michael Mollura is currently in private practice full-time in Beverly Hills, California and also holds workshops and discussions that address the importance of mindfulness, creativity, meditation yogic practices and dream consciousness to bring joy into our everyday lives.

He first received an MA from New York University specializing in performance studies. At the university of Miami, Michael received an MFA in cinema with a focus on images and storytelling using words and music.

Dr. Mollura received his Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and completed both his internship and post-doctoral training at The Wright Institute of Los Angeles. His main orientations are Jungian and Self Psychology.

Dr. Mollura has a firm positive reputation in the spiritual community of Los Angeles and takes pride in his availability and commitment to making magical transformations take place in the lives of all his clients, colleagues and friends. He brings 30 years of education and spiritual growth with clinical training to provide a life-affirming, nurturing, creative and confidential space for real healing to take place.

Megan Hollingsworth, M.S., joins Bonnie Bright to discuss Megan's work on ex·tinc·tion wit·ness, a creative project aimed at ways of mending wounds and living well in light of chronic loss stemming from profound injustice.

Megan shares how expressing the grief of we feel at severance helps us to remember our inherent union, and how seeing the nature of other animals aids in understanding our human nature.

Megan produces short poetic films and electronic posts that explore how other beings influence human potential and shape human story. Her writing exposes the roots of violent greed and encourages self-care and social responsibility during economic revolution and ecological transformation.

The Healing Power of Creativity—Psychiatrist and Jungian analyst David H. Rosen speaks withwith Bonnie Bright about how creativity has the capacity to heal depression and a multitude of issues

Listen in as David describes the concept of "egocide"—the death of the ego, and its relationship with psychological and spiritual rebirth. David believes everyone needs to have a creative outlet to channel the intense energies that often result in difficult conditions, and recounts numerous examples of how creativity heals.

David H. Rosen is an American psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and author, and was the first holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science and of Humanities and Medicine at Texas A&M University.

He has over a hundred publications to his credit, including articles, chapters, essays, and haiku poetry. He has a long-standing interest in spirituality and the healing process and has co-written a book called The Healing Power of Haiku with Joel Weishaus, among other books.

David is perhaps best known for his research involving interviews of survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge and the therapeutic approach of egocide and transformation in treating suicidally depressed individuals. His 1993 book, Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul through Creativity builds on his research with those suicide survivors.

"The Return of the Goddesses—in Mysteries!"—Susan Rowland in conversation with Bonnie Bright about Susan's book, The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite in Women's Detective Fiction.

Tune in as they explore ways in which archetypal images of each of these goddesses show up in murder mysteries, and learn why Susan alludes to an "urgent cultural need to become this figure who will search for clues to the bigger mysteries of the psyche."

Susan Rowland (Ph.D.) is Chair of MA Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and formerly Professor of English and Jungian Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is author of a number of books on literary theory, gender and Jung including Jung as a Writer (2005); Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002); C. G. Jung in the Humanities (2010) and The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung (2012).

She also researches detective fiction, and recently launched a new project and book, The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite in Women’s Detective Fiction (from Spring Journal and Books). Currently working on a project on Dionysus, she is also exploring new discourses in the humanities and creativity in post-graduate education in her program at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Nina Ross and Bonnie Bright discuss what happens when one attempts to make art, and the dynamic relationship between art and psychology. Nina offers personal retreats on art and psychology in Santa Fe, NM.

Nina Ross (PhD, LPAT, and ATR) has a PhD. in the Depth Psychology of Art from Union Institute. Nina is an artist, art therapist, and psychotherapist working from a Jungian perspective. Nina has led numerous workshops retreats, and classes at universities, retreat centers and conferences. She is a gentle, experienced and patient guide through the mysterious realms of art and the psyche.

Gary Bobroff and Bonnie Bright discuss C.G. Jung, Rupert Sheldrake, and Synchronicity. Gary offers insights into where these two great thinkers intersect and shares stories and insights on synchronicity. Gary is hosting a webinar series on the topic starting September 2015.

Gary S. Bobroff, M.A. is an international speaker, author and workshop leader. He is a dynamic presenter and prides himself on delivering the depth of Jungian approaches in an accessible, engaging, visual-oriented and modern form. Gary has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia, Canada and an M.A. in Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the primary developer and facilitator of the Archetypal Nature workshop. His first book, Crop Circles, Jung & the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine, was published in August 2014 by North Atlantic Books (www.JungAndCropCircles.net).

Gary is passionate about bringing insight from depth psychology into the world and excited about helping the Depth Psychology Alliance serve this mission! Using a pragmatic and strategic vision, he hopes to find pathways where imagination can meet the unspoken needs of soul.
You can follow Gary's soulful in-depth Jungian writing on modern questions at www.GSBobroff.com.

Our setting is 16th century Spain. The Inquisition has expelled the Jews or forced them to convert. Teresa of Avila is igniting the imagination of the country as the nun who receives messages directly from God. A young Jewish converso, Alma de Leon, appears on Teresa’s doorstep, petitioning to become a novice in her care. Teresa and Alma discover hidden dimensions in themselves and each other, as they struggle to become powerful women and pioneers in psyche’s movement toward wholeness in an oppressive yet luminous time.

In this compelilng conversation, therapist and author, Elizabeth Clark-Stern shares important insights into the feminine in spiritual, political, and relational realms. The common challenges facing women in both 16th century Spain and in today’s culture reveal how we might balance that which has been oppressed, both personally and culturally. What does it mean for each of us to be a “Teresa of Avila” and how does this fit into our individual process of individuation according to Jung?

Elizabeth Clark-Stern's produced plays and screenplays include All I Could See from Where I Stood, Timeless Night: Viktor Frankl Meets Edith Stein, and Out of the Shadows: A Story of TONI WOLFF and EMMA JUNG.

Out of the Shadows was performed at the International Jungian Congress in Capetown in 2007, and On the Doorstep of the Castle in Copenhagen in 2013.

Elizabeth lives, writes, and practices psychotherapy in Seattle, in company with her husband, her adult daughters, a granddaughter, and a host of beloved colleagues and friends. See Elizabeth's blog site at www.soulstories.net and her psychotherapy site www.elizabethclarkstern.com.

The language of metaphor can provide direct access to powerful transformation. In this compelling talk, Kim shares how aspects of her own story catapulted her into a realm where image and metaphor can be accessed to effect meaningful change in the life of an individual.

This conversation first aired as part of the "Dinner & Depth" 2015 Summer Series in the free online community, Depth Psychology Alliance

Kim Hermanson Ph.D. is the founder of Doorway Sessions for creative breakthroughs and the author of Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination. Kim is Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and she has also taught courses at Esalen Institute, Meridian University, University of California Berkeley and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

The way in which the power of images interfaces with the “acorn theory” posited by the late archetypal psychologist James Hillman lends a key component to the intersection between astrology and psychotherapy. Hillman conjectured that each life has its own soul’s code. The horoscope’s trajectory can be viewed
as a pathway to one’s personal archetypal ground.

Join Hadley Fitzgerald with Bonnie Bright as they discuss how astrology and psychotherapy can intersect for individual growth.

This conversation first aired as part of the "Dinner & Depth" 2015 Summer Series in the free online community, Depth Psychology Alliance

Hadley Fitzgerald, MA, MFT, has been a licensed psychotherapist almost as long as she’s been an astrologer. She has a BA in English from UCLA, and after a 1974 epiphany in which she envisioned astrology as an integral part of psychology and psychotherapy in the future, she received her MA from Phillips Graduate Institute in 1979 and her Marriage and Family Therapy license in 1981.

Hadley authored the Psychological Astrology section of “Under One Sky” by Rafael Nasser and is a free-lance writer. She has a certificate in Ecopsychology from the Institute for Cultural Change and is also a Certified Tarotpy® Practitioner.

While traditional therapeutic methods are her foundation, Hadley often expands on those methods by using astrology’s ancient archetypal symbols to help clients address the conundrums of individual and family dynamics on another level.

Shelley's story haunts our time as a prophetic unfolding of the origins of technological power. Join Robert Romanyshyn, Ph.D, in conversation with Bonnie Bright as they discuss the ecological implications hinted at through Frankenstein's monster, and how our culture must shift to survive.

This conversation first aired as part of the "Dinner & Depth" 2015 Summer Series in the free online community, Depth Psychology Alliance

Robert Romanyshyn Ph.D. is an Affiliate Member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and an emeritus professor of psychology in the Clinical and Depth Psychotherapy Programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has authored six books, including his most recent Leaning toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life, has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes and has published essays and reviews in many professional journals. In addition to lectures and workshops presented in the U.S., he has lectured in Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and parts of Africa.

Get details/Register for Robert's upcoming 10-Webinar Series, hosted by Jung Platform. Depth Pyschology Alliance members get 10% OFF. Use code "DEPTH" at checkout, or if that doesn't work, use the "earlybird" discount even though the deadline has technically passed.

Dreams serve as windows and mirrors into our Souls. Ancient cultures including the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Celts and Romans as well as native Peoples around the Planet combined their dreaming with their stays at springs, wells and spas.es to the fantastic art.

Dreams can be a threshold and doorway into the imagination and in turn can increase abilities to look deeper into personal, social, cultural and spiritual realms of wellness and wholeness.

Join depth psychotherapist Jonathan Paul (J. Paul) DeVierville in conversation with Bonnie Bright for Depth Insights™ as, as they discuss the history of spa cultures and dream incubation. This conversation first aired as part of the "Dinner & Depth" 2015 Summer Series in the free online community, Depth Psychology Alliance

J. Paul DeVierville Ph.D., M.S.S.W., a Jungian psychotherapist and well-known spa historian, facilitates this exploration that can help to reveal not only how a person’s Dreams and how they relate to oneself, but also how, when and where Dreams connect to the wider-world and planet.

This method of exploration: “Eco-Social-Psi- Cultural-Dreaming-Field” is experienced when individuals as well as groups share Dreaming and observe images and discover themes related not only to themselves but also the global domains of culture, civilization and cosmos.

Spa Cultures, Dream Times, Conscious Cosmos 2015 takes place in the spa town of Bad Sulza, Germany, near the cultural city of Weimar where visionaries Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Rudolf Steiner worked. Your stay includes traditional spa bathing in geo-thermal mineral waters as well as floating in the world-famous Liquid Sound Temple: a spectacular circular pool flooded with sound, light and video over and under the water. These relaxing surroundings and stimulating group sessions make your own Dreams more vivid and help relate their meaning to your everyday life, creativity and relationships.

For details/registration for the September Dream Incubation and spa experience, email J. Paul at alamospa@me.com

Judith Harte, PhD, MFT, has been an archetypal astrologer since 1975 and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1985. She has an MA in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Counseling Psychology. Not only does her work embrace the mythic and depth dimensions of human experience, she also has a clinical practice with an emphasis upon crisis intervention, hospice, and coping with ordinary problems of daily living.

Judith has a great love for the astrological language, which is the language of myth and story. She has a burgeoning interest in clay sculpture and spends much of her free time actively creating images of soul out of clay.

What happens when a Jungian analyst who has spent over 40 years researching alchemy writes a fictional saga based on the ancient art? Listen in as Robert Bosnak describes the debut of his thrilling 5-novel series filled with intrigue, magic, love,and passion, and founded on historical documents about the act of turning lead into gold. Set in the 17th century when science is on the ascendance and alchemy is in retreat, this story is about the miraculous Red Sulphur—the so-called philosophers' stone—and the lives of those who have dedicated themselves to the fantastic art.

Join Jungian analyst and author, Robert Bosnak, in conversation with Bonnie Bright for Depth Insights™ as, as they discuss the relationship between humans and matter and role of alchemy in our lives today.

Robert Bosnak grew up in Holland and has studied alchemy for over 40 years. He is a senior Jungian psychoanalyst with a practice in Los Angeles and is the author of 5 books of non-fiction in the fields of dreaming and creative imagination translated into over a dozen languages.

He developed a method called embodied imagination, used widely in psychotherapy and applied worldwide to a variety of creative endeavors. The Red Sulphur saga is his first published work of fiction. He lives in the mountains of Santa Barbara.

NEW: DON'T MISS the upcoming 4-Webinar Series with Eva Rider on this topic. Starts May 20, 2015. Details HERE

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What is the relationship between Jung’s Alchemical Psychology and the Hermetic Tree of Life? The study of alchemy as elucidated by this ancient glyph offers a deepened understanding into Jung’s of archetype, image and symbol, bridging the collective and the personal psyche as it reflects the Soul’s initiatory journey.

When circuits between the archetypal, imaginative and physical realms are open, an understanding of paths leading towards Individuation or wholeness is revealed. Entering into the realm of liminal spaces between the worlds, quickening the cosmic dance between force and form, above and below, masculine and feminine, macrocosm and microcosm, alpha and omega, we evoke a synthesis wherein the dancer and the dance become one.

Eva Rider MA, LMFT, is a Jungian depth psychotherapist, workshop leader and lecturer. She holds a BA in history from McGill University and an MA in psychology from John F. Kennedy University, where she taught as adjunct instructor.

Eva is a graduate of the Marion Woodman BodySoul Rhythms®Leadership Training, a certified Hypnotherapist, and Dreamwork teacher, exploring personal and archetypal dream processes using fairy tale, myth, music, art, poetry and movement
Eva’s passion is a journey of unveiling the feminine through correspondences between Jungian theory, alchemy and Psyche/Soma as revealed through the glyph of the Hermetic Tree of Life.

Carl Gustav Jung has visualized wholeness in the collective unconscious and its archetypes. Quantum physicist David Bohm saw it in what he named the"implicate order" which sustains, guides and organizes energy. Not surprisingly also, as it is in all of us, perennial traditions intuitively expressed it through their myths, legends and even used it efficiently in their medical systems.

Most importantly, it is consequently expressed through the brain, an obvious fractal aspect of it. This brain being also an observable physical object, a consensus becomes possible as to the model at its origin. Putting these together, Ariane Page in her book Isis Code describes this ultimate model as the LIFE biosystem (Law Inherent to the Five Elements).

Join me with Ariane Page for a stimulating and informative conversation that covers a range of topics including Carl Jung, depth psychology, nature, biology, neuroscience, and the elusive quality of "oneness"

Ariane Page was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She studied and worked in communications as an assistant director for CBC TV Montreal for such renown television shows as Femme d'Aujourd'hui (Today's Woman) and La Semaine Verte (The Green Week). Since two of her siblings had physical handicaps her interest in health sciences was always strong and she became a hygienist-naturopath and managed a natural health clinic for over 30 years. She also studied Education Science at Nanterre University in Paris, France. She is a member of the ISSS (International Society for the Systems Science).

In Paris, she studied naturopathy, psychosomatic medicine, studied and taught yoga and provided relaxation sessions to groups and pregnant women. Over time, Ariane followed her interests in Jungian psychology, religious traditions, relationships, art, systems science, and brain research. This resulted in the elaboration of the LIFE biosystem for which Isis Code is the reference book. Ariane now lives in Quebec, where she offers personal consultations on LIFE biosystem's applications.

In the essay, Slater discusses his powerful and intriguing 2009 article entitled "The Mythology of Bullets" (Spring Journal, Volume 81 "The Psychology of Violence") in which he addresses the major mainstream issues that always arise in such devastating events: gun violence, media influence, and mental health.

However, Slater goes much deeper to look at the archetypal aspects of guns in America, how our inherent cultural roots come into play, and how the uncompromising drive of the American Dream insists we succeed at any cost.

Join me with Dr. Glen Slater for an engaging and important discussion of the roots of mass shootings and the depth psychological and archetypal aspects of guns in America.

Glen Slater Ph.D. holds degrees in Religious Studies and in Clinical Psychology and has taught Jungian and Archetypal perspectives at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara for nearly two decades.

Glen edited and introduced Volume 3 of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition—“Senex and Puer”, as well as a volume of essays, “Varieties of Mythic Experience” (with Dennis Patrick Slattery), and has contributed a number of essays to various Jungian publications. Glen is the film review editor at Spring Journal and a regular contributor to that publication.

The horrific tragedy in Newtown, CT has left us all grappling with the trauma of senseless acts of violence, in this case, violence perpetrated on the most helpless and innocent among us, our children. While we may never understand what it is that allows for such atrocities, we have to continue to search for meaning, a way to understand and perhaps, to stem the tide of this force.

What are the archetypal influences underpinning the horror of the Newtown, CT school shooting---and those of so many recent violent events perpetrated on innocents with legal firearms. Is evil a reality? Is it an age-old pattern that becomes constellated under certain conditions? How do we find hope in the horror when tragedy strikes?

Join us, as together we bear witness to this tragedy and search for a way through the darkness to a place of understanding.

Michael Conforti, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst, and is the founder and director of the Assisi Institute. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively is investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences. His groundbreaking work has resulted in a new and growing arena, Archetypal Pattern Analysis™. He has been a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute- Boston, the C.G Jung Foundation of New York, and has served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. Dr. Conforti has presented widely to international audiences.

Bonnie Bright, M.A. holds Masters'degrees in Psychology and Depth Psychology and is the founder of Depth Psychology Alliance, the world's first comprehensive online community for depth psychology. She is the principle of Depth Insights, focused on creating depth psychology media and education, including podcasts and a scholarly e-zine of the same name. She recently launchedDepthPsychologyList.comto find and list depth-oriented practitioners. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA.

Bonnie Bright talks to Barry Spector about how America became a culture of exile, and the ever-greater need for mythology, archetypal thinking, ritual and grieving in the face of what Barry calls "The Myth of American Innocence." Barry’s book "Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth Of American Innocence” is the featured book for the Depth Psychology Alliance free online book club in the month of November. Learn more by clicking here.

Barry Spector writes about American history and politics from the perspectives of myth, indigenous traditions and archetypal psychology. In addition to Madness At The Gates Of The City, Barry maintains an active blog that takes an archetypal look at current events and culture and which, along with his essays, can be found at www.madnessatthegates.com.

Barry and his wife Maya conduct an annual Day of the Dead grief ritual that will take place on November 3rd, 2012, near Berkeley, CA. Learn more at www.barryandmayaspector.com

Bonnie Bright speaks with Poet and Jungian Analyst, Paul Watsky, as he offers up the story of how he was led to each career, and shares his work that opens the door into the deep poetic leanings of soul. "Telling the Difference" is the only book of poetry (featured in the month of October) in the 2012 free online Depth Psychology Alliance Book Club.

"To quote Norman O. Brown quoting Euripedes, "God made an opening for the unexpected," and at long last we have what many of us have greatly desired: a collection of poems by Paul Watsky.

"Paul Watsky's is a singular voice in contemporary poetry, with a range that encompasses the wry, the mordant, the laugh-out-loud funny and the deeply moving, often within the same poem." -Charles Martin

Posted September 18, 2012
Approx 37 mins

Paul Watsky is the author of the poetry collection Telling The Difference grew up in New York City and began writing poetry during high school. He now lives and works in San Francisco, where he earns his living as a Jungian analyst.

He has published three chapbooks, "More Questions Than Answers" (tel-let 2001) "Sea Side" (tel-let 2003), and "Extra Innings," (2010, online at Interpoezia), cotranslated with Emiko Miyashita Santoka (Tokyo, PIE Books, 2006), and has poems in various journals, including Poetry Flash, The Cream City Review, onthebus, The Asheville Poetry Review, The Pinch, Natural Bridge, The Alabama Review, and forthcoming in Many Mountains Moving.

The year is 1910. Sigmund Freud and his heir-apparent, Carl Jung, are changing the way we think about human nature and the mind. 22-year-old TONI WOLFF enters the heart of this world as Jung's patient. His wife, EMMA JUNG, is 26, a mother of four, aspiring to help her husband create the new science of psychology. Despite their passionate rivalry for Jung's mind and heart, the two women often find themselves allied.

Their relationship spans 40 years, following the development of the field of psychology, and the moral and professional choices of some of its major players.

Posted August 14, 2012
Approx 34 mins

Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle,Washington. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional screenwriter.

Her produced plays and teleplays include "All I Could See from Where I Stood", "Help Wanted", and "To See the Elephant". Her play, "Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung", published by Fisher King Press, has been performed in Seattle, at the International Jungian Congress in South Africa, and for the Archetypal Theater Company in New Orleans.

Bonnie Bright speaks with Jungian anlayst Dr. Mark Winborn on the history of the blues and it's archetypal connection to emotion, shamanism, and healing

Blues music can be traced from centuries of tribal rhythm in Africa across the waters with the age of slavery and through work gangs, chain gangs, and other trauma-related eras and activities as those who made the music took on the invitation to sink into the emotions blues encompasses.

In this fascinating interview, Jungian analyst Mark Winborn shares his research into the healing aspects for blues music and the way it overlaps with Jungian psychology and the archetype of shamanism. Mark's book Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey is the August selection for the Depth Psychology Alliance online book club.

Posted: July 11, 2012
36 mins

Mark Winborn Ph.D, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis in 1987 and his certificate in Jungian Psychoanalysis from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts in 1999. In 2011 he published Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey with Fisher King Press.

Dr. Winborn maintains a private practice in Memphis, Tennessee where he is also currently the Training Coordinator for the Memphis Jungian Seminar, a training seminar of the IRSJA. Away from the office, he has played regularly with the Blue Blake Trio at Blues Hall on Beale Street and later with his own band, The Wolf River Travelers.

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky is an analyst member of the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute and a widely published poet. Her recent memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories of her "pushy" muse. Naomi is also the author of The Motherline: Every Woman’s Journey to Find her Female Roots and three books of poetry.

Patricia Damery, also an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco i is in private psychotherapy practice in Napa, California. Patricia has published Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation--which weaves a fascinating tale of her analytic training and simultaneous entry into Biodynamic farming--along and her latest novel, Snakes, the story about the demise of a family farm. Patricia and her husband farm a Biodynamic organic ranch.

Craig Chalquist has walked a lot of the landscape of depth psychology since he first coined the term "terrapsychology" nearly a decade ago. Here Craig speaks about how "patterns, shapes, features and motifs at play in the nonhuman world scupt our ideas, our habits, our relationships, culture, and sense of self" a quote from Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled (p. 6), the June selection for the Depth Psychology Alliance online book club.

Craig Chalquist Ph.D. is the author of 8 books and editor of 2 anthologies, including Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled, the June selection for the Depth Psychology Alliance online book club. Currently a core faculty member in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Dr. Chalquist has also taught at John F. Kennedy University, Antioch University, Prescott College, and Pacifica Graduate Institute among others.

Craig's comprehensive work in the field(s) of depth psychology, ecopsychology, and mythology have given rise to a number of groundbreaking unique programs including Encyclopedia Sophia, an online repository for culture mentors, and Earthrise--a vision for a mythic image for our time.

Bonnie Bright speaks with Dr. Thom Cavalli about Alchemy, Jung's interest in the subject, and how the Egyptian myth of Osiris can play a role in the alchemical individuation process

With his keen understanding of alchemy--and a strong grasp of Jung and Jungian psychology--Thom talks about the stages of alchemy, how C.G. Jung viewed it, and how a greater understanding of alchemical processes at work in our lives can be had by turning to the the 5000-year-old myth of the Egyptian god, Osiris.

Posted: April 21, 2012

45 mins

Thom Cavalli, is a Jungian psychologist in private practice in Santa Ana CA. He has authored two major books, Alchemical Psychology: Old Recipes for Living in a New World (Putnam 2002) and the May Depth Psychology Alliance online book club selection, the critically acclaimed Embodying Osiris: The Secrets of Alchemical Transformation (Quest 2010).

Dr. Cavalli is a favored keynote speaker and he has published a number of articles on alchemical psychology and related topics.With thirty years of administrative experience, Dr. Cavalli has served in a number of clinical settings and has consulted to major corporations. He also provides writing/dissertation coaching and clinical supervision.

Thom is tending the online book club during the month of May on Depth Psychology Alliance.

Bonnie Bright speaks with Dr. Darlene Viggiano about Viggiano's research on the Role of Dreams and Dream-like Experiences in Psycho-Spiritual Emergence Processes

Everyone goes through challenging times of psycho-spiritual growth. Join Bonnie with Darlene as she explores the functionof dreams and visions during crucial periods of psycho-spiritual development. Darlene's work is based on research that analyzed seven cases of extraordinary experiences associated with dreaming and dream-like states.

Posted: April 19, 2012

32 mins

Darlene B. Viggiano, Ph.D. (MFT), author of Dreams and Dream-like Experiences: Their Role in Spiritual Emergence Processes, has co-led group dream analysis for Saybrook University, where she also presented on "Brain Activation Patterns and Neuro-physiological Correlates of Hypnotic Dreaming." She also led an experiential workshop on “Spiritual Diversity: Using dreams to identify and treat spiritual problems” for the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and has presented extensively and authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on the topic.

Bonnie Bright speaks with Safron Rossi, Ph.D., Director of Opus Archives & Research Center--home of the manuscript and archival collections of scholars including Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, and Marion Woodman.

The archival collections of the OPUS Archives make up a valuable resource and are highly relevant to the field of depth psychology. In this interview, Safron describes the 9 major collections at Opus Archives and how they inform the work of our time. Safron shares stories she has witnessed of synchronicities researchers experience while she tends this living archive in her daily work.

April 1, 2012

33 mins

OPUS Archives & Research Center, located on the campuses of Pacifica Graduate Institute near Santa Barbara, CA, is free and open to the public. Appointments to visit the archives or the library collections are welcomed.

Director of Opus Archives & Research Center, Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is also Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, teaching courses on mythology and depth psychology. She earned her Ph.D. in Mythological Studies in 2009 and her writing and scholarly studies focus on archetypal psychology, feminist studies, and the western astrological tradition.

Join Bonnie Bright and Jungian psychoanalyst Ken Kimmel as they discuss the powerful influence of narcissism and how it impacts men's psyche and influences relationships with the women who love them.

Ken's recent book, Eros and the Shattering Gaze: Transcending Narcissism (theDepth Psychology Alliance Online Book Club selection for April 2012) discusses a culturally and historically embedded narcissism underlying men's endlessly driven romantic projections and erotic fantasies, that has appropriated their understanding of what love truly is. Men enveloped in narcissism fear their interiority and all relationships with emotional depth that prove too overwhelming to bear--so much so that the lover must either be colonized or devalued.

Ken shares stories which illuminate many areas of common ground that Jung's Analytical psychology shares with contemporary schools of depth psychology and psychoanalysis.

March 16, 2012

32 mins

Jungian Analyst Ken Kimmel, MA, LMFT, LMHC, is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Seattle with over 30 years of clinical practice, an alum of Sonoma State College and a graduate of North Pacific Institute for Analytical Psychology. His current interests concern the interface of Analytical Psychology with contemporary psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and mystical traditions.

Ken is tending the online book club during the month of April on Depth Psychology Alliance

Gary Samuel Bobroff, M.A. has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a Master's degree in Jungian-oriented Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He has been privileged to visit Crop Circles in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. He is writer, therapist and workshop leader.

For centuries, but particularly in the last few decades, Crop Circles have been a mysterious visitor arriving at our door. Recently, we have been able to scientifically identify that this phenomenon is no hoax, but something authentically unknown. In an engaging look at the science, history, and symbolic nature of this modern mystery, Gary S. Bobroff, M.A., offers a framework for the reader's own deeper consideration of Crop Circles. Placing this modern “dream” into the context of modern reality, Jung, Crop Circles & the Re-Emergence of the Archetypal Feminine considers what it means to live in an era when we are encountering such a new wonder.

Bonnie Bright M.A. speaks with Dr. Michael Conforti on his pioneering work with Psyche-Matter studies and the resulting book, "Field, Form, and Fate" (Spring Journal Books)--the March selection for the FREE online book club on Depth Psychology Alliance.

February 13, 2012

33 mins

Michael Conforti -- Michael Conforti, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst, and is the founder and director of the Assisi Institute. Dr. Conforti's work has resulted not only in a training institute based on his discoveries, but also the development of a new discipline, Archetypal Pattern Analysis.

A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences. He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and the book we’ll be discussing today, “Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche” (Spring Journal Books).

Dr. Conforti maintains a private practice in Vermont. He provides his insights as a sought-after consultant to businesses, government institutions, and the film industry. He has served as script consultant on the 2008 film, Pride and Glory. He has also been asked to consult on the application of field theory to the understanding and resolution of international border disputes.

Bonnie Bright M.A. speaks with Dr. Landau on how the Venus/Aphrodite archetype manifests in our culture and the role Jungian analysis as a way to understand it.

February 4, 2012

25 mins

Dr. Arlene Landau received her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, California in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies in Depth Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2001. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art and a Master of Arts in Educational Psychology, both from California State University at Northridge.

Arlene is the author of the new book,Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul (Spring Journal Books)

Kathleen Burt has been a Fulbright scholar to India and completed her graduate work in South Asian history at the University of Chicago. Now an astrologer for nearly 30 years, was the early 1980s when Kathleen Burt stayed up all night reading C. G. Jung's biography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Through Friends of Jung San Diego, Kathleen took a mask making workshop and found such a strong connection between the Mask and the astrological persona, or Rising Sign she eventually wrote the book Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign and the Second Half of Life, the text for the free online study group on Depth Psychology Alliance for February 2012. More about Kathleen Burt, Beyond the Mask, and the online study group.Order Beyond the Mask book here

Sandy Nathan was born into a Silicon Valley corporate family and started her career as an economist after earning an MA in economics. But once at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, she had a change of heart and transformed her life, ending up earning an MA in Counseling instead. She has worked as a negotiation coach, businesswoman, horse rancher and author. But when she was struck with a powerful experience, she was "given" a book and began writing for real. Her novel, Numenon—a tale of Mysticism and Money is the first book in the 2012 Depth Psychology Alliance Online Book Club.

Bonnie Bright M.A. talks to Jungian Analyst, Poet, and Author Naomi Ruth Lowinsky on poetry, the muse, and what drives us to create in our lives.

November 1, 2011

30 mins

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, author of "The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way" is an analyst member of the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute, and a widely published poet.

Naomi’s recent memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories of her pushy muse. Naomi is also the author of The Motherline: Every Woman’s Journey to Find her Female Roots and three books of poetry—the most recent of those is called Adagio & Lamentation and features lots of poems about her own grandmother, who was a refugee from the Shoah and a fine painter. Naomi says her grandmother he taught her the practice of making art of one’s life.

Bonnie Bright M.A. talks to Barry Spector about grief, the archetype of Dionysis in our culture, the Myth of American Innocence and about Barry's book "Madness at the Gates of the City"

October 24, 2011

35 mins

Barry writes about American history and politics from the perspectives of myth, indigenous traditions and archetypal psychology. He is the author of Madness At The Gates Of The City: The Myth Of American Innocence. His essays can be found on his websites (www.barryandmayaspector.com and www.madnessatthegates.com). Barry and his wife Maya conduct an annual Day of the Dead grief ritual which will take place on November 5th of 2011 near Berkeley, CA.

Bonnie Bright M.A. in discussion with Patricia Damery on psyche-matter connections, archetypes, spirituality, and expanded states of conciousness

Octiober 4, 2011

32 mins

Jungian analyst Patricia Damery talks about the overlap between shamanic consciousness and analytic psychology, a topic she engages in her 2010 book "Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation" (published by Fisher King Press) where she weaves a compelling tale of her tripartite journey of becoming a Jungian analyst, a biodynamic farmer, and exploring "other ways of knowing" with what she terms as "unconventional teachers".

Learn more about Patricia and her books at www.patriciadamery.com.Note: In October, Fisher King Press is generously donating 10% of purchases to Depth Psychology Alliance! Please use the code "DPA10%" at in the comments box at checkout--and thanks for your support!

Bonnie Bright M.A. talks with Michael Conforti on dreams, archetypes, and how to understand them

September 8, 2011

36 mins

Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst in private practice and a pioneer in psyche/matter studies. He is the founder of Assisi Institute, a training organization specializing in Dream Patterning(TM) and Archetypal Pattern Analysis(TM).

Ernest Rossi, Ph.D. is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award For Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Psychotherapy by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation in 1980, the American Association of Psychotherapy in 2003, & The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis in 2008. He is a Jungian Analyst, the Science Editor of Psychological Perspectives & the author of 36 professional books and more than 170 published scientific papers in the areas of neuroscience, psychotherapy, dreams, and therapeutic hypnosis.

Dr. Kathryn L. Rossi is a Founding Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of the California Central Coast (MHE-CCC). She has edited, authored, or co-authored more than 15 books & 25 scientific articles, & is a Professor at the Neuroscience Institute for Psychotherapists of San Lorenzo Maggiore, Italy, CFO and Vice President for The Ernest Lawrence Rossi Non-Profit Foundation for Psychosocial Genomics Research, & a board member for the Erickson Foundation Archives and Press. Kathryn is a psychologist in private practice in Los Osos, CA & a certified Yoga Teacher.

Thom Cavalli Ph.D. is a practicing clinical psychologist, author and lecturer on Jungian psychology. His breakthrough book, "Alchemical Psychology", has become a textbook for teachers and students on individuation and spiritual transformation.

His latest work, "Embodying Osiris: The Secrets of Alchemical Transformation" is receiving rave reviews and promises to become a #1 bestseller! Join Thom and I as we discuss Alchemy, Egypt, current global events and how Egypt is playing out an archetypal confrontation, and Jungian Psychology.

The new 2010 anthology "Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled" articulates the enlivening quest for reconnection with the Earth and its inhabitants. Enveloped by myth, story, landscape, and soul, we are invited to weave seemingly disjointed worlds and engage our human imagination in ways that foster a sense of reverie and belonging in Nature.

In turn, our fresh explorations into the landscapes of the soul and the soulscapes of the land brings to conscious awareness our deep embeddedness in the planet and supports a needed shift toward a more loving relationship with our surroundings.

Craig Chalquist PhD is a Core faculty member at John F. Kennedy University, and an adjunct faculty at CIIS, Prescott College, and Antioch University. Craig is also a Permaculture designer and certified Master Gardener through theUniversity of California Cooperative Extension. As if that weren’t enough, he’s the author of six books and editor of two anthologies--including Rebearths.

Katrina Martin Davenport, MA is a dreamer. Her work involves illuminating the soul and reconnecting with nature through her artistry with a camera, talent with words, expertise in dreamwork, compassionate teaching style, and ability as a clairvoyant. Martin Davenport brings her love for dreams, deep connection, beauty, myth, archetypes, and ancestry to her work. She is a writer, teacher, photographer, dreamworker, and intuitive.

Katrina's work with ecopsychology, and storms in particular, sets her aside as a powerful interpeter of symbols and patterns that affect both inner and outer nature. Katrina's writing appears most recently in the new anthology, "Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled" published by World Soul books.

Lori Pye, Director and Founder of The Institute for Cultural Change, completed her Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California. As an environmentalist, Dr. Pye worked with NGOs around the world and has founded several international nonprofit organizations and worked in executive management with marine conservation organizations. She has also led international conferences on diverse issues which featured names like James Hillman, Thomas Moore, David Abrams, Susan Griffin, Ginette Paris, Dennis Slattery, Ernest Rossi, and James Hollis among many others. Dr. Pye teaches Ecopsychology topics at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), Naropa University, and Antioch University, and Mythology & Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Neuromarketing, the cutting edge field which combines the latest discoveries in Neuroscience with the discipline of Marketing, has made striking inroads into business, advertising, and communications in recent years. Not only can this practice be used by advertisers to reach the "buy button" in a consumer's brain, but it can also serve cause-related campaigns by tapping into our altruistic instincts as well as radically improving communication in relationships with partners, spouses, business associates, or even your kids.

The psychology and promise of Neuromarketing is a profound and highly important new field that everyone should know about according to Christophe Morin, MBA, co-author with Patrick Renvoise of the book "Neuromarketing: Understanding the Buy Buttons in your Customer's Brain" currently ranked in the top 50 Marketing books on Amazon.com